Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-06-03
THE FARM.

Get the SOW and pigs out to grass as
soon as possible. The little pigs will
eat grass when three weeks old. The warm
sun helps to grow. 1t is healthy for them
to root and eat worms, grubs, roots, and
even the earth. The store hogs will do
well on grass alone. When dry weather
comes on have fresh clover pasture for
them and later on sweet corn to cut up.
To take a plant with the roots and earth
entire from pot it is not necessary to run
knife around it, or to poke a stick thro-
ugh the hole in the bottom to push it out.
just invert the pot in your hand, having
the stem of the plant between the fingers
and tap the pot on the bottom with your
othor hand, or tap the rim of the pot on
table or piece of wood.
The banana musk melon is not fit to eat
The time to plant melons, tomatoes
and sweet potatoes is few days after
corn planting time. This varies with soil
and latitude.
Lima bean poles are apt to blow over
when the vines become too large. One
way to prevent this is to set the poles in
each four adjacent hills, inclining toward
q common center, draw the tops together
and tie. And mind that poles more than
four feet high are senseless
In sowing small seeds of feeble growth
for growing plants cover by sprinklipg
earth on them with sieve, and then press
1t down gently with the back of a hoe or
shovel.
The ideal soil in which to set a plant is
one that is moist without being water
soaked, neither too dry nor too wet. In
such soil even poor plant will take root.
The plant will make its own root lust as
cutting does. For setting in dry soil
the plant should be we'll rooted and stocky,
as it must depend on the roots it already
has for start.
Plant twelve to twenty five hills OF
Grant Wax beans, according to the size
of your family.
Thsy need good strong poles.
Allow asparagus to grow about six inch
es tall, ana cut it off even with the
ground. White asparagus is good for
market, but not very good to eat, cut
before the top begins to look weedy.
A farrow COW is one that has passed the
heavy flow of milk that follows dropping
of the calf, and continues two, three or
four months, after which time it will
gradually diminish, through slowly, if the
COW is not again with the calf. 1t is pos
sible to keep good cows in milk two three
or more years If they can be kept from
breeding, and the milk will increase in
richness as it diminishes in quantity.
Summing up the condition of cattle
and the general outlook, frontier Jour
nal says: For the outlook in live stock
we find that we have no cause TO com
plain, but rather cause for cougratulation.
The condition and general outlook for
live stock today is so per cent. better than
this time last year.
Ths Canadian export trade in cattle is
steadily growing, according to the chief
inspector of cattle for the Dominion.
The trade dates 1877, when 1000 head were
shipped to Great Britain. In 1885, Mon
tresl slipped 5S,49S head of cattle and
$4,000 sheep. A considerable number,
he states, sre sent to the United States.
so that the figures above given do not re-
present the total shipments. The total
exports in 1885 were 143,oo3 cattle and
335,o+3 sheep.